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Luminous Animal

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7. The U.S. does not have to threaten the UN to reclassify marijuana...
Sun Dec 9, 2012, 09:16 PM
Dec 2012

The UN is no enforcement mechanism if the US chooses to reclassify or even decriminalize marijuana.

Like many international treaties, the Single Convention does not have any strong mechanism for enforcement, and other signatory countries have endured similar warnings without consequence. Canada, for example, was warned by the INCB in 2008 after it launched its “safe injection sites,” but it has since continued operating the sites and even looked to expand the program.


http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/11/21/1226581/un-agency-head-says-state-marijuana-laws-violate-treaties/
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